Quote Originally Posted by Barack Dalai Lama View Post
In Mongolia? In Tuva? This thread is about Soviet Social-Imperialism and when it came to internal politics in the SSRs Stalin was actually in ways better than Lenin. He created institutions for Muslims (Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan), condemned even SSR chauvinist attitudes towards ASSRs (e.g. Georgian SSR vs. Abkhazian ASSR), under him the Ukrainian language was strongly promoted (and probably saved the language from being irrelevant, as Russians in the Ukraine were forced to learn Ukrainian), and basically although the seeds for social-imperialism in the capitalist sense (trying to rule the world basically in a search for profit) were unintentionally sown, the results did not appear until the 50's, 60's, 70's, etc. under revisionists such as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, etc.
That's interesting, as it paints a picture in sharp contrast the characterisations of Social Imperialism in Mongolia and Tuva. That sounds a lot more like the "soft power" the Britih used in their colonies, where pandering to the wants and needs of the inhabitants of their colonies made them content enough to be ruled by an outside power.

I find the official sanctioning of Islam in Central Asia a particularly surprising capitulation.

He seemed like the type of guy Khrushchev needed to paint himself as a 'legitimate' Communist vis-à-vis Molotov, etc. during the 'thaw.' Then he supported Gorbachev later on. It's safe to say he isn't a Communist. Other than that I have no opinion.
I know this thread about Social Imperialism, but I will never ceased to be amazed at how you seem to be incapable of thinking of things in any other terms other than "revolutionary" or "reactionary." What a tiny world you must live in.